NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting bpftool package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-BPFTOOL-7808329
- published 22 Aug 2024
- disclosed 21 Aug 2024
Introduced: 21 Aug 2024
CVE-2022-48879 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7 bpftool.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bpftool package and not the bpftool package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
efi: fix NULL-deref in init error path
In cases where runtime services are not supported or have been disabled, the runtime services workqueue will never have been allocated.
Do not try to destroy the workqueue unconditionally in the unlikely event that EFI initialisation fails to avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48879
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ca71bc0e1995d15486cd7b60845602a28399cb5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/585a0b2b3ae7903c6abee3087d09c69e955a7794
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fcf75a8a4c3e7ee9122d143684083c9faf20452
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/703c13fe3c9af557d312f5895ed6a5fda2711104
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adc96d30f6503d30dc68670c013716f1d9fcc747
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2ea55564229e4bea1474af15b111b3a3043b76f